jackwagon

[Victor Steinbok]

  Sorry, not nonce. Found "jackwagon" as a real reference (like a
mini-truck, or something like that--I suppose, like a jack-ass on
wheels) in Jane's (1974) and several other references in GB. But I doubt
any of those are relevant here.

VS-)

On 7/29/2010 1:18 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> [J]ackwad" may or may not be disgusting, depending on your sense of language.
> Does this _wad_ have anything to do with the one in "shoot one's
> _wad_"? And does that _wad_ have anything to do with "Johnny Wadd,"
> the cinematic character immortalized by the late, great John Holmes?
>
> I had to have the pun explained to me, since _wad_, IME, has no
> obscene connotations in BE. Before I heard the explanation, my
> assumption had been that "shoot" and "wad" had to do with the wadding
> used in loading muskets.
>
> Hence, according to my sense of language, both "jackwagon" and
> "jackwad" are nonsense nonce forms. After hearing the "jack off"
> portion of Robert's lecture, I must have slept through the part
> wherein he expostulated upon "jack *wad.*
>
> OT: Does the voiceover-guy for that movie *really* say, "Dinner For
> *[s]mucks*," instead of "... [S]mucks"?
>
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
>

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